Update on spring? We have it reversed. All's is a month late. I see Vancouver every day but the artificial snowy part of it. Only blackbird is on scedule. Sitting on the windowsill in the morning, making reservations for the backyard food court.

LukeJavan8
Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 06/23/08
Posts: 7409
Loc: Land of the Flat Water

Backyard food court? Sounds like you've made use of a newterm! Cute. My back yard food court is eating me out ofhouse and home. Still up to 20 inches of ice all over, andthe temps have been close to 0 all week during the night.Did see geese flying north the other day, however. Only one"V" so far, but that is better than nothing.

Hmm, /ʔaɪsɔːɹəbɜːd/. I understand the intrusive-r pronunciation up to the final word. Is the r intrusive, as Sir Michael Redgrave used to admonish his moppets not to pronounce, or does it somehow represent the schwa of the usual pronunciation of today /tə'deɪ/. I understand the intrusive-r to occur at the end of syllables when the next syllable starts with a vowel. YMMV.

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